Graded inspection · Apr 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Doncaster
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry260 applications · 205 places offered · 195 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.3; Doncaster median median 1.4
- 2025 1.2; Doncaster median median 1.4
- 2024 1.1; Doncaster median median 1.3
- 2023 1.1; Doncaster median median 1.2
- 2022 1.1; Doncaster median median 1.3
- 2021 1.2; Doncaster median median 1.2
- 2020 1.1; Doncaster median median 1.2
- 2019 1.2; Doncaster median median 1.3
- 2018 1.1; Doncaster median median 1.3
- 2017 1.2; Doncaster median median 1.3
- 2016 1.2; Doncaster median median 1.4
- 2015 1.2; Doncaster median median 1.4
- 2014 1.5; Doncaster median median 1.5
- This school
- Doncaster median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 205 | 260 | 1.3 | 195 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2025 | 197 | 242 | 1.2 | 192 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2024 | 229 | 253 | 1.1 | 220 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2023 | 205 | 234 | 1.1 | 197 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2022 | 219 | 234 | 1.1 | 208 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2021 | 191 | 223 | 1.2 | 189 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2020 | 227 | 254 | 1.1 | 215 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2019 | 232 | 269 | 1.2 | 233 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 224 | 249 | 1.1 | 209 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2017 | 197 | 239 | 1.2 | 189 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2016 | 215 | 256 | 1.2 | 206 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2015 | 222 | 270 | 1.2 | 221 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 | 221 | 324 | 1.5 | 246 | 1.11 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 184 | 41.1 | 36% | 64% | – |
| 2024/25 | 199 | 42.4 | 41% | 63% | – |
| 2023/24 | 213 | 41.0 | 30% | 52% | −0.49 |
| 2022/23 | 211 | 42.4 | 30% | 54% | −0.34 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Trinity AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGood20241.3applications per place 41.1Attainment 8
- 5.7 km · DoncasterStandards maintained20251.4applications per place 52.2Attainment 8
- 8.3 km · North LincolnshireGood20231.5applications per place 40.1Attainment 8
- 10.1 km · East Riding of Yorkshire20261.4applications per place 47.6Attainment 8
- 10.6 km · DoncasterGraded · no overall grade20242.2applications per place 52.9Attainment 8
- 10.8 km · DoncasterRequires improvement20241.3applications per place 42.6Attainment 8
- 11.4 km · East Riding of YorkshireGood20221.1applications per place 49.7Attainment 8
- 12.4 km · DoncasterGood20241.5applications per place 45.0Attainment 8
- 13.0 km · North LincolnshireGood20231.4applications per place 47.9Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 135007 · 371/6905
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Christian
- Capacity
- 1,470 pupils · 1,176 on roll
- Free school meals
- 39.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2005
- Replaced
- Thorne Grammar School (URN 106785)
- Address
- Church Balk, Thorne, Doncaster, DN8 5BY
- Local authority
- Doncaster
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources